Congratulations to Matt and co-authors for acceptance of our paper entitled “Detection and characterization of molecular-level collagen damage in overstretched cerebral arteries” for publication in Acta Biomaterialia! This paper reports the first identification and quantification of collagen damage in blood vessels following overstretch using the novel collagen hybridizing peptide (CHP) invented by the Michael Yu laboratory...
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The lab has received notice of new funding from the Henry Jackson Foundation, through collaboration with the Biotechnology HPC Software Applications Institute, to investigate the high-rate properties of minipig brain and cerebral arteries. Findings will be used to develop of a model of blast brain injury....
Continue readingCongratulations to Dr. Yeoh for successfully defending his disseration and finishing up his PhD! The title of his dissertation is “Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Primary Blast Traumatic Brain Injury.”...
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Congratulations to Dave and to our collaborator Tony Donato for acceptance of our paper entitled “Cerebrovascular dysfunction following subfailure axial stretch” for publication in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials! This paper reports experiments showing that smooth muscle contractile response is altered by sub-failure axial overstretch. This suggests that tissue deformation during...
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Congratulations to Will for being selected for participation in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for the Fall 2016 semester! As part of this research, he will investigate cerebral vessel wall collagen fiber damage in traumatic brain injury....
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Congratulations to Matt, Justin, and Ray for presentation of their work at the SB3C Conference in National Harbor, MD, on 6/30/2016. The talk reporting their work was entitled “Direction-Dependent Collagen Disruption in Overstretched Cerebral Arteries” and reports further quantification of collagen damage resulting from circumferential overstretch. Findings were based on the use of collagen...
Continue readingCongrats, Dr. Bell! The title of his dissertation is “Thresholds of Stretch-Induced Injury in Cerebral Arteries.”...
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Congrats to Stewart on being elected to give a podium presentation the at BMES Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL, on Oct 7-10. The title of his talk is “Behavioral and Inflammatory Consequences of Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Primary Blast Injury.”...
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Congrats to Stewart, Matt, and Ray for nice presentations at the 2015 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference at Snowbird, UT, June 17-20, 2015. Stewart and Matt presented posters titled “Behavioral And Inflammatory Consequences Of Cerebrovascual Dysfunction In Primary Blast Injury” and “Alteration And Failure Of Cerebral Artery Internal Elastic Lamina Following Axial Overstretch,” respectively....
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Congratulations to Matt for his nice talk (2nd place award) at the Utah Bioengineering Conference on Jan 31. The title of his talk was “Cerebrovascular damage in TBI: a focus on passive constituents.”...
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